Color-coded protest identities spread across postsocialist regimes as WUNC displays.

Evidence

Although Georgia’s opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili called his successful ouster of Shevardnadze a “velvet revolution,” in an echo of the Czechoslovak exit from state socialism from 1989 onward, the international press continued to emphasize the color rose. Over the next two years, opposition movements in postsocialist regimes and elsewhere in the world took to wearing uniform colors and waving banners in the same colors as WUNC displays. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1259

Categorization

• XREF: Directly illustrates the symbolic-absorption side of my regime test: the color itself becomes a portable, legitimated modality for claim-making — but one that turns out to be available mainly to oppositions the regime neither absorbed nor fully crushed. — connects to: Similarities in protest tactics across countries can mask crucially different local conditions — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 46; Sustained campaigns, public performances, and WUNC displays jointly define the social movement as distinct — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1164; Sustained challenge plus WUNC displays defines the social movement form — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1128 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1259

Broader Connections

• Electoral campaigns, social-movement performances, and WUNC displays fuse in nationalist politics across regimes #expands (0.90) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 417
• Color-coded demonstrations spread transnationally as a new repertoire element #expands (0.88) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1264
• The social movement is a synthesis of campaign, performance repertoire, and WUNC displays #expands (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 334
• Sustained challenge plus WUNC displays defines the social movement form #expands (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1128
• Changes in demonstration form reflect deeper shifts in social movement politics #expands (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1231
• Combining campaign, repertoire, and WUNC displays asserted popular sovereignty. #epitomizes (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 347